Sicklefin weasel shark

Sicklefin weasel shark
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Superorder: Selachimorpha
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Hemigaleidae
Genus: Hemigaleus
Species: H. microstoma
Binomial name
Hemigaleus microstoma
Bleeker, 1852

The sicklefin weasel shark, Hemigaleus microstoma, is a weasel shark of the family Hemigaleidae, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific Oceans between latitudes 28° N and 30° S. Its length is up to 1.1 m.

Reproduction is viviparous.

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